Chutz-POW! A host of rabbis recently participated in a five-day “summer camp” featuring extensive firearms training as Jewish leaders from across the US prepared for the High Holidays. The pilot program, run by Los Angeles-based Jewish security organization Magen Am USA, brought together 20 Chabad Hasidic rabbis from 12 states for an intensive crash course designed to help them respond to potential threats at their synagogues and in their communities. Sign up for the California Morning Report newsletter The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now. Thanks for signing up! The program, which also included emergency medicine and…

Trader Joe’s has done it again, this time adding another pumped-up pumpkin creation to its fall offerings. The fan-favorite grocery chain put shoppers in a tizzy with its limited-time Sliced Pumpkin Sourdough bread. For $4.99, customers can taste the fall flavors of pumpkin purée, cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger. The bread is already getting rave reviews, too, with one user on Reddit saying, “Take my money.” The Trader Joe’s website also said it has added a bit of sugar to “accent the natural sweetness of the pumpkin and to enliven those warm pumpkin spices.” While the Monrovia-based chain suggests grabbing a…

In her stronghold in northern France, Marine Le Pen will deliver her first campaign speech this Sunday. The far-right candidate for 2027 is relaunching her campaign in Hénin-Beaumont, after a gathering of her party’s MPs in Le Touquet (Pas-de-Calais) on Saturday. Leading the polls, she is credited with 34% of first-round voting intentions in every scenario, according to a survey carried out on 8 and 9 September by OpinionWay for Les Échos. Yet the past few weeks have been marked by a series of mishaps, against a backdrop of alleged friction with the party’s president, Jordan Bardella, including controversy over…

Updated September 13, 2026 — 8:45pm,first published 6:22pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAA 71-year-old man died after reportedly hitting a pothole on the Western Highway and crashing his motorcycle just outside the town of Beaufort on Sunday. Emergency services responded to the stretch of highway near Trawalla Road after the Ballarat man lost control of his motorcycle just before 12.50pm. Police confirmed he died at the scene and investigations are continuing.Potholes have become a flashpoint in the leadup to the Victorian state election on November 28.GettyThe state of Victoria’s…

Jordon Hudson had yet another unusual interaction with the media — this time on the sidelines of her boyfriend Bill Belichick’s University of North Carolina football game. Pat Welter — a sports reporter for WRAL in Raleigh, North Carolina — shared footage via Instagram on Saturday, September 12, that showed him panning his phone camera over to Hudson, 25, on the sidelines at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill, only to realize that she was already filming him with her own mobile device. The video showed the two seemingly at a stalemate for a few seconds before Hudson waved at him…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! As the execution date nears for a Georgia man convicted of killing two real estate agents, the mother of one victim is remembering the women who were murdered while simply doing their jobs, and the risks that real estate professionals still face.Barring a last-minute judicial stay or executive clemency, Stacey Ian Humphreys, 53, is scheduled for execution on Sept. 16 at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson.On Nov. 3, 2003, Lori Brown, 21, and Cynthia “Cyndi” Williams, 33, were working from a model-home office inside the Oakwind subdivision, a rapidly…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).Calls to repeal women’s rights to vote are emerging from the online firestorm over the Lindsay Clancy trial, prompting Republican women to warn that the intraparty rhetoric could hurt the GOP.”I think there’s definitely a threat in the Republican Party right now,” political and legal strategist Mehek Cooke told Fox News Digital.The online calls to repeal the 19th Amendment come after Clancy’s high-profile murder trial ended in a mistrial, with 11 of…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: Africa could become the next major frontier for data centers and Artificial Intelligence, experts say.The Trump administration is backing and promoting American companies to make AI development, in their words, ‘the gold standard’. The U.S. is trying increasingly to grab business opportunities in Africa, as backlash and environmental restrictions hit data center development in the U.S. and Africa.”Africa is emerging as a significant potential location for building AI infrastructure, especially as many mature markets face increasing environmental and power constraints,” Abhishek Goyal, Consultant at specialist research group Arizton Advisory…

Pink fired back at critics after she accused woke rapper Macklemore of crossing a line over his anti-Israel tirade while opening for Ed Sheeran at MetLife Stadium last weekend. Macklemore, whose real name is Benjamin Hammond Haggerty, called to “Free Palestine” and accused Israel of committing genocide before he performed his song “Hind’s Hall” during the Sept. 4 and 5 concerts in New Jersey. Macklemore’s performance also featured a slideshow played on the screen behind him, showing footage from the war in Gaza. Pink reshared a video that featured the “Thrift Shop” rapper’s set from StopAntisemitism on Instagram, which criticized Macklemore…

Published on 13/09/2026 – 11:53 GMT+2•Updated 12:26 Russia launched over 450 drones across Ukraine in overnight attacks, according to Ukraine’s Armed Forces, while Kyiv struck oil refineries in Russia’s Tatarstan, according to Russian authorities. Russia launched 453 drones of various types across Ukraine, 409 of which were neutralised by Ukraine’s Armed Forces. However, 13 locations were struck. Multiple attacks on the city of Stryi, in the Lviv region, which borders Poland, left a multi-storey residential building, an outbuilding near a school and buildings near a railway station damaged after being struck by Russian drones. In the city of Izyum, a…

September 13, 2026 — 9:00pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAA“Reading this morning of the predicted demise of the world by AI, I wonder what the world would look like,” ponders Garry Thomas from Oatlands. “No work, little hope and continual breadlines where one would get bread, soup and a copy of the latest C8 to keep our morale up?”“On a brighter note than dragonflies (C8) is the delight of fireflies up here,” says Suzanne Saunders of Jiggi. “Half a dozen or so is Christmas come early. Swarms would be…

Brad Pitt seemingly had a blast attending the US Open women’s final with girlfriend Ines de Ramon. The F1 actor, 62, alternated between cuddling with de Ramon, 33, and engaging with fans in the stands at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, New York City, on Saturday, September 12. Pitt was photographed interacting with a group of ladies in the row behind him, personally snapping a selfie with them at one point. At other points, de Ramon wrapped her arm around Pitt’s as they watched Elena Rybakina, of Kazakhstan, defeat Aryna Sabalenka, of Belarus, in Saturday’s women’s final. (The men’s final…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! DALLAS — While President Donald Trump will not be on the ballot for the 2026 midterm elections, the former chair of Black Voices for Trump believes Republicans can maintain the momentum gained from his major performance improvements among Black voters during the 2024 presidential race.T.W. Shannon, a former Oklahoma state House Speaker who served last year in the second Trump administration and is now the Republican lieutenant governor nominee in his home state, says that policies “the GOP has expressed,” as well as the Democratic Party’s leftward lurch, will help Republicans as…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Swedes head to the polls Sunday as Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s center-right party is slightly behind the center-left Social Democratic Party led by Sweden’s former Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, with the election dominated by fears of mass migration, crime and the economy.”Years of gang violence, Islamist extremism, persistent unemployment and pressure on public services have intensified the debate over whether integration has kept pace with immigration,” foreign policy expert and author Daniel Schatz, told Fox News Digital.DENMARK’S LEFT-WING PM WARNS: ‘BIG ENEMY HAS STARTED TO GROW FROM WITHIN’ AS EUROPE FACES MIGRANT…

Mississippi police said Saturday they were still investigating the death of Tasia Fortune, a black woman found hanging from a tree last month, a day after a man was arrested in connection with the killing. Loved ones also painted a picture of Fortune as a mother, athlete and woman of faith who they hoped would not solely be remembered for her horrific death. Additional arrests are expected in the case, Jackson Police Chief RaShall Brackney said Friday. Police sought and arrested 51-year-old Jarques Ratliff, who is black, when they encountered him walking on the street, authorities said. Ratliff should appear…